Research Spotlight: Interpreting parameters in water transit time distribution

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Introduction Recent natural and man-made disastrous events underscore the importance of emergency evacuation planning and management for buildings and facilities (Averill et al., 2005). Although building codes include provisions for egress design, their prescriptive nature poses many limitations in terms of providing effective evacuation for specific buildings, each of which is unique. Human be...

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Measuring accurate transit parameters

By observing the transits of exoplanets, one may determine many fundamental system parameters. I review current techniques and results for the parameters that can be measured with the greatest precision, specifically, the transit times, the planetary mass and radius, and the projected spin-orbit angle.

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW Research priorities in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies

Department of Physiology, Institute for Cardiovascular Research (ICaR-VU), VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ICIN-Netherlands Heart Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cardiology, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Referral Ce...

Research Spotlight: An Empirical Review of Methods for Temporal Distribution and Interpolation in the National Accounts

THE Bureau of Economic Analysis has adopted a new method for the interpolation of quarterly and monthly estimates in the national accounts. The new method uses a variant of the Denton procedure. National statistical agencies routinely face the task of compiling a large number of quarterly and monthly estimates using relatively complete annual data and less complete quarterly and monthly informa...